I’m clearing my Cinco de Cuatro schedule so as to watch the remixed fourth season of ‘Arrested Development.’

I am not here to defend the fourth season of Arrested Development. I liked it more than most people and thought that it had some solidly funny moments. But I also don’t disagree with the criticisms of it, that it lacked the chemistry of the previous seasons since the cast was unable to film together, and that the rhythm of the series was just … off.

That’s why Mitch Hurwitz is releasing a “remixed” season four (on this Friday, Cinco de Cuatro no less), is such exciting news.

The original season four of ‘Arrested Development’ on Netflix, as some of you know, experimented with a Rashomon-style of storytelling — with each episode dedicated to the adventure of one member of the Bluth family. The goal was that by the end of the season a unified story of cause and effect would emerge for the viewer — full of surprises about how the Bluths were responsible for most of the misery they had endured. In some ways to be an experience for that viewer, perhaps, akin to eating some toast, then some bacon — maybe a sliced tomato, followed by some turkey, and realizing, “Hey, I think I just had a BLT.”

But in between season 4 and this upcoming season 5, I had time to take that Rashomon-type story and re-cut it — shuffling the content from 15 individual stories into 22 interwoven stories the length of the original series, as an experiment to find out, well … I guess, “if I could make some money.” I mean, who am I kidding, I want this thing to syndicate eventually.

But I also pursued it as a comedic experiment to see if new jokes and a new perspective would emerge from a remix that features all the Bluths in every episode, and where the simultaneity of the story plays out chronologically. And I am really excited by the final result. It’s funny in a whole new way, and I believe it creates a really entertaining and hilarious new experience for the “viewer.” And I only call you that because I don’t know your last name.

“We told the ending we wanted to tell,” he explained. “’Lost’ was not a show about people lost on an island, but in their lives, searching for meaning and purpose. (The finale) speaks to this notion of how we need other people to get us through our journeys in life.”

The incredible Wendell Pierce has the only response that is necessary:

You glorify those that murdered our mothers & fathers,raped our women, & swelled our numbers with bastards. You @kanyewest embrace those who inhumanly experimented on our bodies to watch the ravage of death for decades in Tuskegee.

You @kanyewest need to visit the new memorial of the lynching victims, Whitney Plantation of Louisiana, Goreé Island, the Slavery museum of Liverpool and learn about the suffering of this nightmare of human history.

Apologize to his spirit and the souls of all our ancestors who were denied the life of privilege you lead. When that is done, I pray the world chooses to forget you and the trite, monotony you call music.

I’m with Rachel Bloom. I am absolutely certain much of the pearl-clutching over Michelle Wolf is because it came from a woman who is expected to NOT TALK LIKE THAT. As a woman who has been attacked in this very blog over her language, let me tell you, the sexism is real.

Here’s the thing: plenty of people who support the #MeToo movement do recognize that there are many, many gray areas. While, for instance, the Aziz Ansari story might have been embarrassing for him personally, it also created a conversation about just how complicated questions of consent can be. No one is saying that Al Franken is a monster in the form of Harvey Weinstein, but we have to acknowledge that his behavior (or that of George H. W. Bush’s) is kinda gross so that moving forward other men will get it through their thick skulls that they can’t be molesty with women without consequence. This moment is important and does not need “defusing.” And while I hope that Tom Brokaw is indeed as innocent as he claims, protecting men that we like from their own bad behavior does not do anyone any favors.